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Witnesses: I Inventor:

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JAMES R. CORBETT, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL CASKET COMPANY, 'OF ROCHESTER,

NEW YORK.

HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1905.

Application filed April 6, 1904:. Serial No. 201,925:

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES R. CORBET'I, a c'itizen of the United States, and a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hinges; and it consists in the mechanism hereinafter described two hinged parts are intended to be set in line with each other as one position and parallel and close to each other as the other position.

The hinge is composed of two butt parts having a connecting-bar pivoted to each.

In the drawings, 1 and 2 are the two similarsupporting members or butt parts, each consisting of the flat portions or screw-plates 3 3, provided with screw-holes 4: and connected by the slotted or arched portion 5. In the two arched portions 5 lies the connecting-bar 6, which is fastened to said arched portions by the pivots 7. Each arched portion 5 is recessed on its top adjacent to the pivot 7 to the width of the connecting-bar 6, as shown at 8,

, and the connecting-bar is cut away, as at 9.

In order to fasten this hinge to two parts or bodies 10 and 11 to be hinged together, a slot 12 of the width of the arched portion 5 is made in the edge of each of said parts or bodies, the arched portions are placed in said slots, and the screw-plates are fastened against the outer sides of said parts or bodies, as shown in Fig. 4. The parts or bodies are preferably set slightly apart, as shown in the figures, in order to secure free action.

When the parts 10 and 11 are in line, the hinged. parts take the position shown in Fig. 5 and are supported in that position by the pressure of the connecting-bar 6 against the inner ends of the slots in the arched portions 5 and as shown in Fig. 1. When the hinged parts take the position of parallelism, as shown in Fig. 4:, theyare supported in that position by the pressure of the edge of the connecting-bar against the end of the recesses 8.

This hinge is of particular use in cases where the hinged parts are to be covered with cloth or other flexible material, such as caskets having one or more drop sides, and also for covered tables, desks, and the like.

What I claim is A hinge comprising, two pairs of apertured attaching-plates 3, 3, having arched members extending at right angles from the inner adjacent edges of each pair of plates; the closed tops of the arched portions 5, 5, being recessed at 8, 8, and a link 6, cut away at 9 pivotally connecting the two arched members near the recesses 8, substantially as set forth.

' JAMES R. CORBETT.

Witnesses:

D. GURNEE, L. 'THoN. 

